Meaning of Hooch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
   Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable
2. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

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Examples

“he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.”

“Bring on the free hooch!”

“Burn the hooches.”

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